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Perry Link is the Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California at Riverside. His recent books include An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics and a translation of the memoirs of the Chinese astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State. (October 2021)
Before the Revolution
Eileen Chang’s ‘Little Reunions’
Little Reunions
by Eileen Chang, translated from the Chinese by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz
Forever Young
a film directed by Li Fangfang
June 7, 2018 issue
A Magician of Chinese Poetry
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)
by Eliot Weinberger, with an afterword by Octavio Paz
The Ghosts of Birds
by Eliot Weinberger
November 24, 2016 issue
If Mao Had Been a Hermit
The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century
edited by Yunte Huang
Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong
by Jeremy Ingalls, compiled and edited by Allen Wittenborn
April 7, 2016 issue
China: Novelists Against the State
Death Fugue
by Sheng Keyi, translated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant
A Map of Betrayal
by Ha Jin
Kinder Than Solitude
by Yiyun Li
The Dog: Stories
by Jack Livings
November 19, 2015 issue
The Wonderfully Elusive Chinese Novel
David Tod Roy’s translation of ‘Chin P’ing Mei’
The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei, Vol. 5: The Dissolution
by an unknown author, translated from the Chinese by David Tod Roy
April 23, 2015 issue
He Exposed Corrupt China Before He Left
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by Evan Osnos
August 14, 2014 issue
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